Qinqiang Opera

                         "Crying for my wife in the suburbs"

Also dubbed Luantan, Qinqiang Opera is a local Chinese opera that mainly thrives in north China's Shaanxi Province, as well as its neighboring regions in Northwest China, like Gansu and Qinghai provinces and the Ningxia Hui and Xinjiang Uygur autonomous regions. It boasts the most ancient, affluent, and largest musical system of all Chinese operas. Qinqiang performances are characterized by a simple, bold, exquisite and penetrating, yet exaggerated style.